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The Ups and Downs of the Erie Canal1
The Erie Canal, America’s first national waterway2, which joins the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean, was completed in October, 1825. To mark the completion, Governor Clinton dropped some water from Lake Erie into the Hudson River.
Only a few years later, however, trains had become an easier and cheaper way to carry goods. 1 Difficult repairs were needed. But few people in the town seemed sad about the breaks. Many were pleased, in fact. Almost 20,000 men were brought in to repair the damage, more than the normal population of Forestport. People brought a lot of business, eating, drinking, and playing games of chance. The town had money again. 2 New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt became worried, and state officials punished several men from Forestport for damaging canal on purpose.
Newspaper reporter Michael Doyle wrote a book called "The Forestport Breaks" after talking with people who had lived in Forestport. 3 He warns local officials, and in this way prevents more severe damage. But some of the townspeople were angry with the farmer for what he’d done.
By 1903, some businesses were asking the New York government to build a whole system of canals. 4 In 1991, people who cared about the historic canal held a big public event, making the same trip that had celebrated the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825. 5
A few days later, people decided to take measures to redevelop the canal system. Today, boats still use the system to transport heavy goods.
Questions: Sentence Gap(選項填空):
a. Life became as profitable and wild as it had been during the best days of trade on the canal.
b. At the beginning of the book, a farmer describes seeing water flooding over a levee3 in Forestport.
c. The Erie Canal and other parts of the New York canal system received government help.
d. As Governor and Mrs. Clinton had done, the group traveled from Buffalo, New York to the Hudson River.
e. Mr. Doyle said he learned that his great-grandfather had taken part in the wrongdoing.
f. The Erie Canal could not have been completed without the hard and dangerous labor of many workers.
g. The Erie Canal was losing business, and some of its levees began to break.
Notes:
1. Erie Canal伊利運河,美國歷史上著名的運河
2. waterway n. 水路,航道
3. levee n. 防洪堤;碼頭
參考答案：
1. g 2. a 3. b 4. c 5. d
